Shaw v. Camp’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1952
7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Stone v. Wood · Moyer v. Swygart · Stark v. Brown · Shaw v. Moderwell · Phelps v. Funkhouser
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ The power to dispose of one’s property by will is an important and highly cherished right, and is so recognized throughout the enlightened world. The law should give every living man the assurance that his will, if so far executed in compliance with law as to be admitted to probate, shall be carried into effect, and if attacked will be defended by the person to whom he has committed the duty and power of executing his last wishes and desires.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.